Forbidden Game: Ruthless CEO, Please Set Me Free

Chapter 728 - 738 Awakening (7)

Qiao Dehou gently stroked her hair, his eyes a bit moist: "Good child... good child..."Leaning against the familiar embrace, Qiao Mo’s nose tingled.

In these past two years, she hardly had a chance to properly look at him.

At first, he went to prison, and the square cell separated them, then he inexplicably got injured, and after that, he remained unconscious.

Father and daughter embraced for a long time before Qiao Mo’s emotions gradually settled.

Once calm, before Qiao Dehou could speak, Qiao Mo blurted out many of her questions from back then, like whether she was that girl, why she had a sister, Qiao Yun, and whether he knew about the fire.

Qiao Dehou pondered for a moment and then began to speak slowly.

Of course, he painted the fire as an accident and didn’t mention the subsequent car accident.

Qiao Mo sat by the bed, dazed, murmuring: "So it really was me..."

Fu Nancheng stood by her side, gently pulling her into his arms without a word.

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After this day, Qiao Mo’s mood improved significantly, and her relationship with Fu Nancheng also eased somewhat with Qiao Dehou’s awakening.

However, this easing abruptly ended on one day in the eighth month of her pregnancy.

That night, Fu Nancheng did not return home.

Qiao Mo sat on the sofa, rubbing her swollen legs and feet, looking at the clock on the wall for the nth time.

Ironically, she didn’t even know when it started.

She suddenly got used to waiting like this.

Watching the second hand, minute hand, and hour hand go round and round, waiting for him to come home in the increasingly dark and silent night.

But this day seemed destined to disappoint her.

By the next morning, the bed beside her was still neatly made, without any trace of him having returned.

Qiao Mo propped herself up because of her increasingly large belly, causing her legs and feet to swell severely every day, making it difficult to wear her once well-fitting shoes.

Moreover, it was already late autumn, and with the due date approaching, Qiao Mo requested a few months of leave from the company, occasionally doing some work from home.

She waited, and it stretched into three days.

For three whole days and nights, Fu Nancheng did not come back, nor did he give her a call.

Qiao Mo grew increasingly disappointed but eventually couldn’t resist picking up the phone to dial his number.

The phone rang a few tones before a busy signal came, and then it was hung up.

Qiao Mo stared at the phone in her hand, dazed, never expecting the call... to be hung up like that.

Come to think of it, this seemed to be the first time he hung up on her.

Qiao Mo chuckled mockingly at herself, looking at her growing belly, her nose ached, and her heart hurt.

However, it wasn’t herself she felt sorry for, but the child in her belly.

If he doesn’t like him, what then?

If he treated the child as he did her, then what?

As if sensing her low spirits, a gentle flutter came from her abdomen.

Qiao Mo, eyes filled with tears, chuckled lightly, quickly caressing him gently: "Mama’s alright... don’t worry... you have to be good, and when you’re born, help mama deal with daddy, that big bad guy, okay?"

As if in response, another gentle flutter came from inside her belly.

Qiao Mo could distinctly feel him kicking her. The force wasn’t strong enough to cause pain like some other pregnant women might feel.

Qiao Mo waited another day, and still, Fu Nancheng had not returned.